You've Still Got a Place in My Heart
You've Still Got a Place in My Heart | ||||
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Studio album by George Jones | ||||
Released | 1984 | |||
Studio | Eleven Eleven Studio, Nashville, Tennessee | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | Epic | |||
Producer | Billy Sherrill | |||
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You've Still Got a Place in My Heart is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1984 on the Epic Records label.
Background
You've Still Got A Place In My Heart was released the same year that Jones finally got sober at 52 years old. His wife Nancy told The Texas Monthly in 1994 that the first show Jones played sober in Birmingham, Alabama "was terrible. He was like a scared puppy. 'I can’t do it,' he said. 'I can’t go on.' He was begging and breaking down and dying for a drink. And when he got out there on that stage, and after the first song, he looked out to me in the audience, and he seemed like such a poor, lost, wounded soul that I burst into tears." Jones, who had been written off for dead countless times in the previous decade, stated to the Associated Press in June of that year, "All my life it seems like I’ve been running from something. If I knew what it was, maybe I could run in the right direction. But I always seem to end up going the other way." He persevered, however, and the singer managed the longest stretch of sobriety of his adult life, largely thanks to the support of his wife, who had also become his manager.
Recording
You've Still Got a Place in My Heart includes three songs from earlier albums. "I'm Ragged But I'm Right" is a remake of a song that appeared on the singer's debut 1956 album, Grand Ole Opry's New Star. "Even the Bad Times are Good" is a remake of a song from his 1965 album, Mr. Country & Western Music. "Come Sundown" (a Bobby Bare cover written by Kris Kristofferson) is just a reissue of the exact song Jones had released on his 1974 album, I Can Love You Enough.
The title track, which peaked at number 3 (Jones's ninth top ten hit in four years), is a cover of a 1950 Leon Payne recording that has been covered by multiple artists. Many of the numbers are up-tempo and optimistic, especially the heartfelt "The Second Time Around", which sounds like a tribute to Nancy Jones. He also gives a Johnny Cash-spirited narration on the novelty song "Courtin' in the Rain". "Your Lying Blue Eyes" is a cover of a 1979 hit song by John Anderson.
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "You've Still Got a Place in My Heart" | Leon Payne | |
2. | "From Strangers, To Lovers, To Friends" | Hillman Hall, Glenn Ray | |
3. | "(What Love Can Do) The Second Time Around" | Joe Chambers, Larry Jenkins | |
4. | "Come Sundown" | Kris Kristofferson | |
5. | "Even the Bad Times Are Good" | Carl Belew, Clyde Pitts | |
6. | "I'm Ragged But Right" | George Jones | |
7. | "Courtin' in the Rain" | T. Texas Tyler | |
8. | "Loveshine" | Harlan Sanders | |
9. | "Your Lying Blue Eyes" | Ken McDuffie | |
10. | "Learning to Do Without Me" | A.L. "Doodle" Owens, Dennis Knutson, Buck Moore |
References
- ^ You've Still Got a Place in My Heart at AllMusic
External links
- George Jones' Official Website
- Record Label
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- Grand Ole Opry's New Star
- Country Church Time
- White Lightning and Other Favorites
- George Jones Salutes Hank Williams
- George Jones Sings Country and Western Hits
- George Jones Sings from the Heart
- George Jones Sings Bob Wills
- Homecoming in Heaven
- My Favorites of Hank Williams
- I Wish Tonight Would Never End
- George Jones Sings Like the Dickens!
- I Get Lonely in a Hurry
- The Race Is On
- Mr. Country & Western Music
- New Country Hits
- Old Brush Arbors
- Trouble in Mind
- Country Heart
- Love Bug
- I'm a People
- We Found Heaven Right Here on Earth at "4033"
- Walk Through This World with Me
- George Jones Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier
- The George Jones Story
- My Country
- If My Heart Had Windows
- I'll Share My World with You
- Where Grass Won't Grow
- Will You Visit Me on Sunday
- George Jones with Love
- George Jones Sings the Great Songs of Leon Payne
- George Jones (We Can Make It)
- A Picture of Me (Without You)
- Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)
- In a Gospel Way
- The Grand Tour
- Memories of Us
- The Battle
- Alone Again
- I Wanta Sing
- Bartender's Blues
- My Very Special Guests
- I Am What I Am
- Still the Same Ole Me
- Shine On
- Jones Country
- You've Still Got a Place in My Heart
- Ladies' Choice
- Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes
- Wine Colored Roses
- Too Wild Too Long
- One Woman Man
- You Oughta Be Here with Me
- And Along Came Jones
- Walls Can Fall
- High-Tech Redneck
- The Bradley Barn Sessions
- I Lived to Tell It All
- It Don't Get Any Better Than This
- Cold Hard Truth
- The Rock: Stone Cold Country 2001
- The Gospel Collection
- Hits I Missed...And One I Didn't
- Burn Your Playhouse Down – The Unreleased Duets
- What's in Our Heart (with Melba Montgomery)
- Close Together (As You and Me) (with Melba Montgomery)
- Bluegrass Hootenanny (with Melba Montgomery)
- George Jones & Gene Pitney – For the First Time! Two Great Stars
- George Jones & Gene Pitney – Recorded in Nashville, Tennessee! (with Gene Pitney)
- It's Country Time Again! (with Gene Pitney)
- Double Trouble (with Johnny Paycheck)
- A Taste of Yesterday's Wine (with Merle Haggard)
- Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again (with Merle Haggard)
- George Jones & The Smoky Mountain Boys
- Hillbilly Hit Parade
- George Jones Singing 14 Top Country Song Favorites
- George Jones Sings His Greatest Hits
- The Fabulous Country Music Sound of George Jones
- Long Live King George
- The Crown Prince of Country Music
- A King & Two Queens (with Judy Lynn and Melba Montgomery)
- Blue & Lonesome
- Heartaches & Tears
- Famous Country Duets
- Hits by George
- The Best of George Jones
- All-Time Greatest Hits, Vol. 1
- Encore
- Anniversary – 10 Years of Hits
- By Request
- Super Hits
- Friends in High Places
- Super Hits, Volume 2
- 16 Biggest Hits
- 50 Years of Hits
- God's Country: George Jones and Friends
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